this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Personally, I found that karma led to self-censorship of any idea that remotely deviated from the group consensus.
Can you think of alternatives to voting, though? Sorting always requires some curating system that isn't random but I can't think of any that would be robust to group consensus
I don’t think user voting in of itself is a problem. It’s the consequences of large negative voting that causes the real problems. In Reddit, a single unpopular comment on a popular subreddit could send a casual Redditor into negative karma which effectively shadowbans them from Reddit. As a result, you see people deleting their comments to stop the bleeding. Controversial opinions are punished severely.
Fair enough. I always assumed downvotes were used to weed out/shadow-ban troll accounts more than suppress unpopular opinions but I've never seen that measure reduce the number of trolls in the long run
Ofc! whats the point of posting anything when you have people actively work to suppress your thoughts and statements?
Really user-based meta-moderation had been pretty much a disaster, not sure we need internet points at all, things worked great without them.